In this paper, we use night light imagery data at two scales – the city and within the city. Since many of the urban characteristics of cities including traffic and paved area are correlated with each other we derive components for our sample of 286 cities in China. We then correlate these measures for average DN values from night light imagery at the center and periphery of the city (using buf...

Here's the problem with that figure: It's off by a factor of at least 10. They don't call the large fabric planting containers most growers use these days “smart pots” for nothing. They permit the plant to use soil and water far more efficiently. Using a drip irrigation system, Benno prefers to water his plants three gallons once every three days. This is in line with other growers I've talked ...

Current literature highlights the role of commercial centers in cities in generating shopping trips and transport carbon emissions. However, the influence of the characteristics of commercial centers on consumer travel behavior and transport carbon emissions is not well understood. This study addresses this knowledge gap by examining shopping trips to eight commercial centers in Shenyang, China...

BACKGROUND Hypertension (HTN) is a major cause of death in Chinese farmers. Remoteness from population centers may independently affect HTN prevalence and severity. METHODS We used random cluster sampling to select 27 villages in Yunnan province, China. Within each village, we randomly selected 50-80 men and women between the ages of 50 and 70 years. A total of 1,177 participants underwent in...

introduction: several strategies have been raised and studied for rural development including the development and fortification of small towns. researchers believe that small cities as a chain ring between cities and villages, provided their development and fortification, can lead to development in their surrounding rural areas in various aspects.  so, the strength and growth of small towns cou...

As a global phenomenon, farmland abandonment continues to challenge the sustainability of agri-food supply and rural development. Investigating heterogeneous effects multilevel location on is great importance understand spatial disparity mechanism abandonment, which has significant policy implications for food security revitalization. Taking Tai’an City as case, this study aims explore impact a...

the effect of forest roads on the extent and type of fire damage occurred in forests and rangelands of the neka county in mazandaran province was investigated. for this purpose, all fire spots, stand number, percentage and type of injury and damage to tree species, and average diameter at breast height (dbh) were noted with 100% inventory; area and geographic location of access roads were deter...